WASHINGTON — It is good to be President Barack Obama these days. In the midst of a visit to Africa, including Kenya, where Republican front-runner Donald Trump has insisted Obama was born, the president seems to have been liberated by events and circumsta
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The fiscal year is a month old and Pennsylvania’s government does not have a state budget. It does, however, have a report from Moody’s Investor Services downgrading the debt of eight Pennsylvania school districts to junk or near-junk levels. Among them i
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Airline passengers who arrive at the check-in counter believing they have secured good deals on fares often are brought back to earth by baggage fees ranging up to $100 for bags checked at the gate. Baggage fees generated about $38 billion for U.S. airlin
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Scrantonians are no strangers to predators from on high. The coal barons and their dense descendants have exploited city residents from every conceivable angle and are always seeking new veins to mine.
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Jack Jones was hot, but far from bothered. “What a great idea,” the semiretired Navy intelligence officer said as he accepted my offer of a free Popsicle. I went to Courthouse Square on Tuesday armed with a pull-cooler, a fiery Calypso playlist
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Sunday Times readers were shocked to learn that Roaring Brook Twp. officials looked the other way as an illegal trucking business operated upstream from Lake Scranton, the water supply for 160,000 people.
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Minions are taking over. The pill-shaped servants of a cartoonishly evil master debuted in “Despicable Me.” The 2010 film earned nearly $550 million at the box office. The sequel sold nearly $1 billion in tickets.
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A loss this raw gets under your skin. It sinks into blood and bone and leaves an indelible ache. Pain fades with time, but those who loved John Wilding will forever be marked by the searing suddenness of his passing.
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Wrapped in a black dress that shimmered like a shawl of stars, Regina Kozel said she wasn’t at her best but the show must go on. She had buried Edward, her husband of nearly 50 years, just three weeks earlier and hadn’t had time for practice.
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In previous years, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey’s failure to appear at Virginia McGregor’s fundraiser for Hillary Clinton on Wednesday probably would have produced mass hysteria among us newspaper writers. We might have filled columns, even this one, with speculat
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In Scranton, City Councilman Wayne Evans stands practically alone. Yep, he’s a Republican councilman. A year ago, the council, populated entirely by Democrats, in a city dominated by Democrats, voted 3 to 1 to appoint him to replace resigned Councilman Ja
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This is the time upstart challengers for congressional seats start seriously thinking about running against incumbent congressmen, but it’s hard to see a serious local congressional race next year. We haven’t heard a peep about anyone challenging Republic
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With all the talk about America’s history of racism lately, it may be a good time to look back at a local congressman’s role in the abolition of slavery. As the Civil War approached, well before Lackawanna County split away and before the development of t
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For a job that pays less than some of them probably earn as lawyers, the four attorneys who ran for Abingtons magisterial district judge spent a lot of money. Their spending rivaled that of the 13 candidates for Lackawanna County commissioner and clerk of
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